posted August 28, 2006 10:39 AM            

Apparently all the treason and corruption committed by Commander Corruption is to be excused and those from the Clintonista brigade who are attempting to gain elected office are to be given a pass for standing by..or actively participating in the treasonous disaster which was at the core of odorific values of the Clinton Administration. A foul fragrance indeed.

Hillary is sure to try this same strategy..."that's old news" when

Cattlegate
Filegate
Travelgate
Whitewater
Recordsgate
Castle Grande
Obstruction of Justice
Perjury
Bribery

charges are leveled at her...if she decides to be a candidate for President.

"That's old news" isn't going to fly.

Neither should any of the Clintonista crowd be given a pass for the treason and corruption which was the hallmark of Commander Corruption's administration.

Handing over United States missile, satellite and nuclear weapons technology secrets to communist China for campaign contributions remains today exactly what it was then..treason.

It was the kind of treason which now permits communist China to threaten Los Angeles with a nuclear missile attack...which they have done and which, had they done before the Clintonista brigade, their threats would have been laughed to derision. But not anymore.

Communist China is also quite active helping both North Korea and Iran with their missile weapons development. It would be just perfect if these enemy nations were threatening the United States with the technology Commander Corruption gave to Communist China.

Oh, but yawn..."that's old news".

Joe Sestak - Clinton's Silent Watchdog
Charles R. Smith
Friday, July 28, 2006

On the surface, Joe Sestak seems like the perfect Democrat candidate. Sestak is giving Republican Representative Curt Weldon of Pennsylvania a tough fight for his seat in Congress. However, like most former Clinton administration officials, Sestak has much to hide and little to say about his work during the 1990s.

Sestak is an ex-Navy admiral who served as Director of Defense Policy on the Clinton National Security Council from 1995 to 1997. Sestak often served in positions that required expertise in weapons and space technology. Sestak served in the G.W. Bush administration as Deputy Chief of Naval Operations Warfare Requirements and Programs In fact, Sestak wrote a detailed report on Navy Space Policy Implementation in May 2005 before retiring from the service.

Despite his vocal campaign today, Sestak served in the Clinton White House as the "silent" watchdog over U.S. Defense policy. The reason why I can legitimately call Sestak the "silent" watchdog is because at no time during the various Clinton scandals did Sestak raise any alarm.

For example, the admiral did nothing to stop Chinese espionage from obtaining a vast array of American military technology. Sestak prides himself as being a patriot and an expert in military space technology, yet the records show that he remained silent when encrypted satellite communications systems, missile nose cone designs, and radiation-hardened chip technology were virtually given to the Chinese army.

Please note – for those who are not military minded – radiation-hardened chip technology has one major function: to keep computers alive during a nuclear war.

Memos to Lake

In 1995, Sestak's boss at the White House, Tony Lake, received a letter from then-CEO of Hughes, C. Michael Armstrong. "The USG [U.S. government] does not require Congressional approval to remove commercial satellites from the United States Munitions List (USML), which is under State Department jurisdiction, and placing them on the Commerce Control List (CCL), which is under Commerce Department jurisdiction," wrote Armstrong.

"It is my understanding that State has resisted vigorously Commerce attempts to do just that. For the national good, this situation must change. A commercial communications satellite is not a defense item. State Department control of satellites is not required for national security. Continued State Department control is damaging to the U.S. satellite industry and is not warranted."

Sestak certainly must have disagreed with C. Michael Armstrong's description of U.S. satellites as "not a defense item." After all, Sestak wrote the plan for the U.S. Navy space warfare. However, much like the dog that didn't bark at a burglar, Sestak remained silent as President Clinton agreed with Armstrong, moving all oversight for satellites to the Commerce Department. Thus, the Chinese army was able to steal advanced U.S. missile and space technology.

When President Clinton moved the oversight of satellite exports from the State and Defense departments to the Commerce Department, C. Michael Armstrong and his "aero-spaced" counterparts wrote a thank-you letter to Clinton. On May 3, 1996, a letter from the CEOs of Hughes, Lockheed and Loral expressed their thanks directly to Bill Clinton.

"In October of last year we wrote to you asking you to complete the transfer of responsibility for commercial satellite export licensing to the Department of Commerce. Your administration recently announced its intention to do just that."

"We greatly appreciate this action which demonstrates again your strong commitment to reforming the U.S. export control system," states a letter signed by Hughes CEO Armstrong, Lockheed CEO Norman Augustine and Loral CEO Bernard Schwartz.

Silent Sestak

Still, Sestak had time to raise objections. Instead, he toed the White House line, remaining silent while memo after memo passed to his boss, Tony Lake. One such secret 1996 White House memo shows that Loral requested that President Clinton delay a pending waiver for a satellite export at the same time that Loral was under investigation by the FBI for sending advanced satellite technology to China without a waiver.

According to the July 1, 1996 action memo for Presidential National Security Advisor Anthony Lake, "In mid-June, Globalstar's parent company, Loral requested that we temporarily delay evaluation of their request for a national interest waiver for this project. The company has now asked us to resume processing of their application, and State has confirmed its support for approval of the license."

"The Dept. of State, with the concurrence of the Departments of Commerce and Defense and the Officer of Science and Technology Policy, recommends that the President report to Congress that it is in the national interest to waive the Tiananmen Square sanctions in order to allow the licensing of communications satellites and related equipment for export to China," states the memo.

In July 1996, President Clinton signed the waiver for Loral immediately after the memo to Lake. Clinton's waiver gave Loral enough cover to claim that any transfers of advanced missile technology were covered. The result was that the FBI had to close the investigation.

Yet, there were memos that Sestak must have missed. In a September 1994 memo to Clinton, Harold Ickes, then White House chief of staff, informed him that Loral CEO Bernard Schwartz could be used to raise campaign donations "in order to raise an additional $3,000,000 to permit the Democratic National Committee to produce and air generic TV/radio spots as soon as Congress adjourns." Ickes then urged Clinton to invite Schwartz to the White House "to impress [him] with the need to raise $3,000,000 within the next two weeks."

In another memo, Ickes informed Clinton that Schwartz "is prepared to do anything he can for the administration."

Between October 1995 and March 1996, as Clinton mulled over whether to ignore the State, Justice, and Defense Departments' reasons against granting Loral waivers to export advanced technology to China, Loral Chairman Bernard Schwartz injected more than $150,000 into the DNC's coffers.

Where Was Joe?

When the Chinagate scandal broke, Loral went down in flames, cited for a long list of illegal exports to the Chinese military. The result was that Loral went into Chapter 11 bankruptcy and to this day it is struggling to survive. In addition, Hughes was charged with 123 counts of violating national security. Hughes pleaded no contest to the 123 charges filed by the U.S. State Department and has since paid a record fine.

All of the violations took place during Sestak's term as a national security adviser in the Clinton White House. To this day, the admiral-turned-candidate has said nothing about the money that passed to Clinton from the Chinese army or the advanced space technology that passed by his desk on its way to Beijing.

In comparison, his opponent, Curt Weldon, objected loudly and acted quickly. Weldon led the effort in Congress to halt the wild exports to the Chinese army. Weldon ignored the special interests such as Loral, Hughes and Lockheed and succeeded in getting the oversight for space technology exports back under Defense Department control.

Still, Sestak holds the record for all-time Clinton crony contributors giving money to his campaign. The givers include Madeline Albright, Sandy Berger, Richard Clarke, John Deutch, Jamie Gorelick, Anthony Lake, John Podesta, and Daniel Poneman. Many of the Sestak contributors also gave the U.S. public hours of amusement with a wide variety of Clintonoid scandals.

Albright, the former secretary of state, once danced with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il and called him "charming." Her comments came at about the same time Kim was finishing off his nuclear weapons program while starving to death 2 million of his own people.

Sandy Berger worked with Sestak at the White House. Sandy would later plead guilty to stuffing his underpants with secret documents from the National Archives and destroying a few that might break bad on his days in the Clinton White House. Sandy had to resign from his advisory position to the Kerry campaign for his secret BVDs.

John Deutch had a hard time after leaving the director's chair at CIA. Deutch had to be pardoned by then-President Clinton for stealing CIA secrets and leaving them on his home PC. The PC contained not only secret CIA files but also a bevy of naked beauties from various porn sites around the Internet.

These are a few of the people one can expect to advise Joe Sestak if he were to get elected. The Clinton administration may be long gone, but the illegitimate children of Clinton's legacy remain.

posted August 28, 2006 11:03 AM              

We can't change the past, Jwhop no matter how much we ruminate over it. What is done is done. It can't be changed. All we can do is move on past it and work for a better government without corruption.

There is no doubt in my mind that many Democrats in government are corrupt but one could post a list of the indicted and disgraced Republicans in the House and Congress in the past couple of years and all their crimes of corruption as well, Jwhop. Also the numerous violations of the law by Bush and his administration itself. Corruption reigns in Wash. D.C. in both the major political parties.

posted August 28, 2006 01:49 PM            

Second, it does matter what Commander Corruption and his legion of Clintonistas did because it affects us all in the present.

Third, some of those Clintonistas are running for elective office to the United States Congress and if elected will have further impact on our lives.

Fourth, ALL corrupt administration officials, ALL corrupt Congressional members, ALL corrupt judges, ALL corrupt government employees regardless of political affiliation should be promptly prosecuted and sent to prison and I'm not talking about a federal country club.

posted August 28, 2006 03:21 PM            

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It is just that most of us see no reason to carry on a lifetime lingering hate which serves no purpose except to eat away the soul.
We can't change the past, Jwhop no matter how much we ruminate over it. What is done is done. It can't be changed. All we can do is move on past it ...

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Glad to finally hear it!

Now let's see exactly who chooses to apply that to what. How selective can people be?

Somehow, I don't see it being applied to the "illegal" war concept ... nor to the recent uproar that went on here ...

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Eleanore
posted August 26, 2006 03:41 PM
"Well, I'll be the first to jump in and say that that isn't true about jwhop. I fall to the left with some of my beliefs in politics sometimes. jwhop and I have had some pretty heated disucssions ourselves and been adamantly opposed to the other one's views but I can't recall ever being personally attacked or verbally abused by him and I'm sure he'd say the same about me."

posted September 20, 2006 03:27 PM            

China Fires New Missile
Charles R. Smith
Thursday, Sept. 21, 2006

PLA Military Space Program

Clearly, 2006 will be known as the "summer of missiles." China recently joined North Korea and Hezbollah in the parade of ballistic bombers by shooting off a newly developed Dong Feng 31 (DF-31).

According to the Russian news agency Itar-Tass, China carried out a test launch of a Dong Feng-31 intercontinental ballistic missile. "The Chinese side had notified the Russian Defence Ministry in advance about the upcoming launching of the intercontinental missile," noted Russian military sources cited by Itar-Tass.

"The Dong Feng-31 missile was fired from the Wuzhai launch site towards the Taklimakan desert at about midnight on Monday," stated a Russian ministry official.

According to Russian sources, the test warhead flew approximately 1,500 miles to a predetermined target site in China. The Russian space control facilities reportedly tracked the missile launch and full flight path to impact.

The test firing confirmed the capability of the DF-31 for the Chinese Second Artillery, the People's Liberation Army unit that operates all long-range missile forces. The new Chinese nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missile is now considered to be in service.

The DF-31 is capable of reaching the U.S., delivering either a single three-megaton H-bomb or three 90-kiloton nuclear warheads with precision accuracy on U.S. targets. The primary targets in America are the West Coast cities of Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle.

Russian and Western sources expect an improved longer-range DF-31A missile to be fielded in 2007. Both missiles are road-mobile systems and are moved on large multi-wheeled vehicles to prepared firing points.

Not-So-Civilian Satellite

In addition to the new DF-31, China shot its latest communications satellite into orbit, demonstrating that a robust and well-coordinated space program is under way. However, the Chinese space program is not peaceful.

The Zhongxing-22A – ChinaSat 22A – satellite was sent into space aboard a Long March 3A rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in northwest China. The communications satellite successfully entered orbit 25 minutes after the launch.

Western mainstream media covered the launch of ChinaSat 22A as if it were some commercial operation. The news media reports echoed the official Chinese communist outlet Xinhua, stating that the satellite was designed by the Chinese Academy of Space Technology and owned by a company under the state-owned China Telecommunications Satellite Group Company (ChinaSat).

Yet ChinaSat 22A is not a commercial satellite. Although the reports claim that the satellite belongs to ChinaSat, the satellite is in fact controlled by the People's Liberation Army (PLA) and will be used exclusively for military communications.

The military designation of ChinaSat 22A is FengHuo-1A or Beacon Fire, a method used by the Great Wall of China in ancient times to communicate.

The FH-1A was sent into orbit to replace the FH-1, China's first dedicated military communications satellite, which was launched in 2000. The FH-1A is designed to support the PLA's command, control, communications, and intelligence (C3I) system. The FH-1A satellite is a pure military communication spacecraft designed to improve the PLA's tactical-level control of aircraft, missiles and warships.

ChinaSat has a long history of acquiring U.S. space technology. ChinaSat purchased two satellites from Hughes during the 1990s, one of which crashed upon liftoff from a Chinese army rocket base.

ChinaSat and Clinton

ChinaSat also contributed to the Chinagate scandal involving the Clinton White House and PLA money being siphoned into Democrat campaign donations. In February 1998, Clinton provided a "national interest" waiver allowing the launch of a U.S.-manufactured commercial communications satellite on a PRC (People's Republic of China, communist China) rocket. This waiver applied to the ChinaSat 8 satellite manufactured by Space Systems/Loral (Loral).

The ChinaSat 8 satellite waiver became a political hot potato after the New York Times reported that President Clinton had approved the "national interest" determination, or waiver, despite an ongoing Department of Justice criminal investigation into Loral's alleged earlier unauthorized transfer of missile guidance technology to the PRC.

The fact that the chairman of Loral Space & Communications Ltd., Bernard L. Schwartz, was the largest individual donor to the Democratic Party in 1997 also did not help.

Despite long legal battles and lots of name calling, the State Department eventually overrode Clinton's waiver and denied the export of ChinaSat 8.

Loral also later pleaded no contest to a long list of U.S. national security violations, including the unauthorized transfer of missile guidance technology to the Chinese army.

A January 1998 draft of a National Security Council memorandum for President Clinton warned that signing the waiver for ChinaSat might not be in the U.S. national interest. The memo included a reference to an ongoing review of the Chinese transfers to Iran of C-802 anti-ship cruise missiles. Despite the warnings, Clinton elected to ignore the C-802 transfers to Iran and he approved the waiver for Loral.

The world has come full circle since Clinton's waiver. The Chinese C-802 missiles sold to Iran were passed on to Hezbollah. Hezbollah, in turn, used its Chinese C-802 missiles to sink a Cambodian freighter and damage an Israeli warship off the Lebanese coast.

Loral CEO Bernard Schwartz is still donating gobs of money to the DNC and related liberal 527 organizations. Despite leading Loral into and out of bankruptcy, Schwartz has managed to donate over a half-million dollars during this election cycle.

The advanced satellite technology passed by Clinton's waivers from Loral and Hughes now orbits the Earth in the form of the FH-1A, a Chinese military communications satellite.

The missile technology passed by Loral and Hughes to the Chinese army has matured into a nuclear-tipped monster called the DF-31, which can waste whole American cities in a blinding flash of nuclear hell.